Nicholas Evans has written many books of this style and nature with the most popular and well-known being the Horse Whisperer, but in my opinion all his others pale into insignificance next to this, his fourth novel.

It is a story about how a family deals with the death of their daughter and how it actually came about, much more of a novel deep in mystery and discovery than soem of the others, which have been focused on the love between two people.

The story begins by telling about how the body was found and then goes back into the past to look at how the situation cam e about. This is the point at which we are really introduced to the characters, with a family visiting a ranch for their vacation. The samily seem serene enough and the parents get on well, but this illusion is soon broken and the long road that is divorce begins, which alienates their children and drive the family further apart and into emotional turmoil.

The book focuses on the father in the family and how he deals with the break-up and the realisation that his daughter's body has been found. And in all of this, depite the father being the cause of the break-up, i find myself sympathising with him and his situation, and you want him to find happiness and return to normailty.

This for me is a great book that deals in human emotion so well and draws you into the story from the first chapter. This is an enchanting and beautiful novel about how we as human beings deal with tough emotional situations and perhaps shows us how we could deal with them better.